"2. That is the political climate in the United States at the moment, that China is persona non grata. Basically everything that China does is viewed as illegitimate, even when it builds better and working quantum computers. It is reality, but Americans must write it in a way that only suggests that reality. Suckas!"

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/03/interview-lee-kuan-yew-on-the-future-of-us-china-relations/273657/

"For America to be displaced, not in the world, but only in the western Pacific, by an Asian people long despised and dismissed with contempt as decadent, feeble, corrupt, and inept is emotionally very difficult to accept. The sense of cultural supremacy of the Americans will make this adjustment most difficult."